CEO SUMMARY: General Electric Corporation made a dramatic entrance into in vitro diagnostics (IVD) by acquiring almost all of Abbott Laboratories’ IVD business division. Once the sale is closed later this spring, GE will be the second major imaging vendor to buy its way into the IVD business. With its deep pockets, celebrated management skills, […]
IVD Stunner: GE to Acquire Abbott’s Diagnostics Unit
Everything is sold but Abbott’s diabetes care and its molecular diagnostics business units
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XIV No. 2 - January 29, 2007 Issue
- Tags: analyzer, analyzers, automation design, cap, dark report, healthcare information technology, hematology, in vitro diagnostic, in vitro diagnostics, informatics, integrated diagnostic, ivd industry, lab instruments, lab manager, lab managers, lab test, lab testing, laboratories, laboratory information, laboratory information system, laboratory test, laboratory testing, molecular diagnostic, pathologists, poct, the dark report
